Lord Bacon's Essays, Or Counsels Moral and Civil: Translated from the Latin by William Willymott, ... In Two Volumes. ... |
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... ness , to have the Frailty of a Man , and the Security of a God . Surely this Say- ing would have been more tolerable in Poefy , where fuch Tranfcendencies are more allowed . And the Poets indeed have been bufy with it ; for it is in Ef ...
... ness , to have the Frailty of a Man , and the Security of a God . Surely this Say- ing would have been more tolerable in Poefy , where fuch Tranfcendencies are more allowed . And the Poets indeed have been bufy with it ; for it is in Ef ...
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... ness , that are not able to enter into the Heart and Bottom.of it : Like Houses , that have convenient Stairs and Entries , but never a fair Room . Therefore you fhall fee fuch Men find out pretty Iffues or Out - lets in the Conclufion ...
... ness , that are not able to enter into the Heart and Bottom.of it : Like Houses , that have convenient Stairs and Entries , but never a fair Room . Therefore you fhall fee fuch Men find out pretty Iffues or Out - lets in the Conclufion ...
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... NESS OF EMPIRE fall into their Mouths as it were : And on the other fide , that it is a most certain Oracle of Time , that thofe Nations , that have continued long in the Profeffion and Study of Arms ( as the Romans and Turks prin ...
... NESS OF EMPIRE fall into their Mouths as it were : And on the other fide , that it is a most certain Oracle of Time , that thofe Nations , that have continued long in the Profeffion and Study of Arms ( as the Romans and Turks prin ...
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... ness and Iniquity in it . Ufe also fuch as have been Lucky , and have Prevail'd in Things wherein you have employ'd them before : For this breeds Confi- dence , and they will leave no Stone un- turn'd to maintain their Prescription , as ...
... ness and Iniquity in it . Ufe also fuch as have been Lucky , and have Prevail'd in Things wherein you have employ'd them before : For this breeds Confi- dence , and they will leave no Stone un- turn'd to maintain their Prescription , as ...
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... ness , and so Ripen it by Degrees . R XLVIII . Of FOLLOWERS and FRIEND s . COSTI OSTLY FOLLOWERS are by no means to be admitted ; least - whilst a Man maketh his Train longer , he make his Wings fhorter . Now I -reckon COSTLY , not ...
... ness , and so Ripen it by Degrees . R XLVIII . Of FOLLOWERS and FRIEND s . COSTI OSTLY FOLLOWERS are by no means to be admitted ; least - whilst a Man maketh his Train longer , he make his Wings fhorter . Now I -reckon COSTLY , not ...
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Page 54 - Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled : Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again ; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, " If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
Page 43 - I know not how, but martial men are given to love : I think it is, but as they are given to wine; for perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures. There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars.
Page 139 - Magna civitas, magna solitudo; because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship for the most part which is in less neighbourhoods. But we may go further and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness...
Page 292 - Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies: like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like.
Page 154 - THERE is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic : a man's own observation, what he finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
Page 265 - Next to that is the muskrose; then the strawberry leaves dying, with a most excellent cordial smell; then the flower of the vines, it is a little dust like the dust of a bent, which grows upon the cluster in the first coming forth...
Page 43 - There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable; as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind ; friendly love perfecteth it ; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
Page 113 - The ripeness or unripeness of the occasion (as we said) must ever be well weighed; and generally it is good to commit the beginnings of all great actions to Argus, with his hundred eyes; and the ends to Briareus, with his hundred hands, — first to watch, and then to speed.
Page 27 - Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants ; but not always best subjects ; for they are light to run away ; and almost all fugitives are of that condition. A single life doth well with churchmen, for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool.